All the snow and wind the last few days is keeping the big orange Iowa D-O-T plow trucks on the roads and they could end up using a record amount of salt and sand. D-O-T Winter operations administrator, Craig Bargfrede, says the last few days haven’t given them any rest.
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While they are using a lot of material on the roadways, Bargfrede says their only supply problem is getting through the weather to re-supply the areas that need it.
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The D-O-T has roughly one-thousand fulltime employees and they try to hire around 600 part-time to work on the snow removal efforts.